Just a little update on the first half of October...
We did a science experiment on frothing/foaming. Children chose their own colors and created a mix with specific ingredients. We saw some chemical reactions that led to the creation of foam spilling out of the bowl. What a moment of excitement!
We repeated the same experiment individually. They loved it and tried the foaming over and over again...
Wohooooo!!!
Foamy river...
Children decided to put all their liquids in one big tub and see what would happen. Each one of them dumped their mixture and they soon saw a beautiful rainbow river forming...
We took it outside to add more ingredients and see the rainbow river foam and pour down. However, it foamed but not too much to overflow out of the tub. Our children loved the new mix of colors anyway!
Since they loved the foam, we did an art activity that involved squirting paint out of foam bottles (the kind we use for hand washing where foam soap comes out). We put paint in those bottles and it was fun to squirt paint that came out as foam on the paper!
Friends added glitter to their 3-dimensional color, making their art work as they liked it - sparkly!
Letter L
For letter L we made our collages stamping yellow for lemons and red for ladybugs. Some friends also added leaves that we gathered from outside on our leaf hunt...
We also enjoyed making and drinking lemonade. Many skills were put to action for this -- squeezing and straining the juice, pouring, adding ingredients, tasting, and modifying as necessary.
When one friend excitedly said that the lemons reminded him of the Minions, we thought of putting that idea into a creation. We painted Bob and attached his arms using pipe cleaners! Friends wanted to interact with him and we had the following conversation...
Later they ended the lemon exploration with sink and float. Some friends simply enjoyed scooping lemons, putting them in cans, stacking them, making them as boats, etc...
We also got engaged with out journal drawings of Leaves!
Exploring Orange Jello jigglers...
Friends started out by writing their names or letters on a strip of paper to do a "compare and contrast" with how it would look when seen through the jigglers...
A. made an eye patch...
And it ended up as a sensory activity when the Jello started to crumble after all that experimentation...
One day as Halloween conversations circled the classroom, friends decided to paint the skeleton that has been sitting in our class.
They later gave him a bubble bath...
And L even taught the clean fresh skeleton some literacy skills...she taped a pencil on the hand and made the skeleton sit in a position that would work best for both of them :)
Gak is always fun to explore in a variety of ways. Here we set it on top of a metal grate and watched how it fell slowly through the openings.
Puzzle skills grow over time when we practice together...
Happy 4th birthday AS...thank you for the pizza and cupcake treat...we enjoyed it thoroughly...
Happy birthday to teacher Rosemary...we had fun singing a birthday song for her together and giving her our heartiest wishes...we are so blessed to have you!
We enjoyed Teacher Rosemary's birthday by dancing to the ever-favorite "Hamster Dance" song!
Stay tuned for the second half that includes our pumpkin patch field trip, art and activities, as well as all the pumpkin fun that our classroom had together!
Keep seeing you'll around,
Hugs,
Teacher Rashida.
